Boris Dawidowitsch Belkin

Boris Dawidowitsch Belkin

Boris Dawidowitsch Belkin ( Russian Борис Давидович Белкин ; born January 26, 1948 in Sverdlovsk ) is a Russian violinist.

Boris Belkin began his violin training at the age of six and performed for the first time in public under Kyrill Kondrashin when he was seven . He then studied at the Central Music School of the Moscow Conservatory. As a student he already gave concerts with the great orchestras of the Soviet Union, in 1973 he won first prize in the national violin competition of the USSR.

In 1974 Belkin emigrated to the West, where he performed with the major symphony orchestras of the USA, Canada, England, Germany and Israel and under conductors such as Vladimir Ashkenazy , Leonard Bernstein , Sir Charles Groves , Bernard Haitink , Gunther Herbig , Erich Leinsdorf , Lorin Maazel , Zubin Mehta , Riccardo Muti , Seiji Ozawa , Klaus Tennstedt , Kurt Sanderling , William Steinberg , Christoph von Dohnányi , Charles Dutoit and Myung-Whun Chung gave concerts.

He has played the violin concertos of Tchaikovsky , Sibelius , Strauss , break , Prokofiev and Shostakovich one on CD. He has also appeared in various television productions, including playing Tchaikovsky's violin concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under Leonard Bernstein and Ravel Tzigane 's violin concerto with the Orchester National de France , in a biography of Sibelius, he played his violin concerto with the Swedish Radio Orchestra under Ashkenazy.

Belkin leads a violin class at the Maastricht Conservatory and gives regular summer masterclasses at the Accademica Musicale Chigiana in Siena .

literature

• Joachim W. Hartnack: Great violinists of our time . Atlantis Musikbuch-Verlag, Zurich 1993.
• Alain Pâris: Lexicon of Performers of Classical Music in the 20th Century . dtv / Bärenreiter, Munich / Kassel 1992, ISBN 978-3-423-03291-9

Web links

• Short biography on loddingkonsert.se
• Boris Belkin - Accademia Musicale Chigiana